Chapter 369: Holy shit, someone's cheating!

Liang Yan arrived at the bottom lane and squatted for a while in the small patch of grass in the middle of the river, but didn't see Ai Luoli, feeling a bit puzzled, wondering if he had gone home.

Glancing at the bottom lane situation, the Iceborn Archer had just left base, Meiko's Bard was walking toward the river, exposed in VG's vision, had a Control Ward but didn't place it, also didn't swap for a Sweeper, clearly not intending to clear vision to give the blind monk a chance to catch someone.

What is Ai Luoli doing?

Liang Yan couldn't quite judge, found this guy strange, so he stopped guessing and turned to farm his newly respawned F6.

If it were before the 6.22 patch, Liang Yan would have finished clearing the second wave of jungle monsters by now, but in this current patch, the second wave has just started to respawn.

It just looks weird.

In fact, looking at the entire League of Legends update history, this is also an extremely distorted patch; why would Riot do this?

There are two intentions.

One aim is to target Liang Yan: Firrrrrre, you think your jungle clearing is awesome, always more efficient than others? I'll just cap your jungle clearing efficiency, so no matter how fast you clear, it's useless if the monsters haven't respawned—what are you going to clear?

The second intention is actually to give junglers more time to gank, so everyone farms less and fights more, making the game more exciting—but nobody expected the opposite: with more jungle time, laners know the jungler could show up anytime to gank, so they play more cautiously and dare less to fight.

I'd guess Riot's balance team is also confused.

How could this happen?

Or maybe they suffered from not studying the Dao De Jing seriously, not understanding that extremes lead to reversal.

He played until 7 minutes without ever engaging, just counter‑jungling twice, but Ai Luoli didn't know if he was lost in the jungle; he never showed up, and Liang Yan only detected his position twice by seeing him place a ward from an unseen corner into VG's vision—sneaky, like a mouse that avoids the light.

Around 7:30, Liang Yan went to the top lane and gave Marquis his second blue buff.

After disappearing for over five minutes, Ai Luoli finally appeared, clearing in the river the Control Ward that Marquis had placed in the river grass three minutes earlier.

Scout's Snake Girl was also moving toward the upper river.

Liang Yan was bewildered—could this guy be trying to steal the blue?

A glance at the top lane showed Bo Bi had already pushed the wave and was running toward the river.

Fu Lan Duo, however, wanted to save a teleport and was walking up to lane.

EDG hadn't expected that, besides Marquis's Control Ward, Liang Yan, having failed to catch anyone in a counter‑jungle a minute earlier to prevent the blind monk from wall‑hacking around vision, had also placed a fake ward in front of the Dragon pit.

Marquis's Control Ward had been cleared, VG lost vision over most of the river, leaving only a glowing ring around the front of the Dragon pit.

Ding ding ding!

Liang Yan, while taking the blue buff, pinged the river fog and communicated with Marquis:

"When the person shows up, you just go in and we'll catch him!"

"Just go in?"

"Yeah, go in; if we get first blood we profit!"

As the words fell, the silhouettes of the blind monk and Snake Girl appeared at the edge of vision; Marquis immediately drove forward, and the exit of the teleport vortex appeared right in front of EDG's mid and jungle players.

At the same moment, Fu Lan Duo smoothly placed her teleport on the fake ward in front of the Dragon pit, and Bo Bi happened to enter from above into that ward's vision range.

Ai Luoli originally intended to use the advantage of moving first in top lane to come over and counter‑jungle the blue, giving "Jiao Shen" a show of force as a welcome to the LPL.

But who would have thought—before he could even get there, the enemy just drove straight in and collided!

Can we fight?

Ai Luoli thought we could fight.

Scout also thought we could fight.

"Kill kill kill!"

"We can fight, we can fight—I can beat one of them!"

The two didn't retreat, and A Guang's Bo Bi also charged down.

When VG's two figures emerged from the vortex, the prepared Ai Luoli quickly locked her cursor onto the nearest target.

No matter who it was, as long as she kicked one away, EDG would surely win this fight.

But he didn't expect that locking the cursor would have no response!

The blind monk hadn't even had time to act before he was already controlled!

To seize this initiative, Liang Yan didn't even cast Q, he went straight into W— the Bulldozer's "Earthshatter" is an instant cast, while the blind monk's R has about a 0.2‑second wind‑up!

This caused the blind monk to be directly knocked up!

After W Q Q, he shook his head to dodge the Snake Girl's ultimate, then swiftly turned and bit down with a Ferocious Bite!

In that lightning‑fast combo he even managed to dodge a crucial skill!

Scout stared, dazed, and missed both shots of his Twin Fang!

Still in the middle of her teleport, Fu Lan Duo exclaimed excitedly and shocked:

"Holy shit, someone's cheating!"

And on the commentator desk, the three casters all let out a simultaneous "wa!"

"Oh my god, Jiao Shen! So brutal! How is he playing?! The Snake Girl's stun didn't even hold him! One bite and Ai Luoli is already low on health! In a panic he kicked the nearby Bulldozer away, but then got locked down by Marquis's follow‑up skill and couldn't flash!"

"VG's two‑person combo burst instantly killed Ai Luoli!!"

"But the Bulldozer took the Snake Girl's full combo plus the blind monk's Q‑R and is also low on health!"

"And Ai Luoli's kick just happened to send the enemy right in front of A Guang!"

"A Guang then slammed forward with a wall‑bang, while Jiao Shen remained airborne with no chance to flash!"

"Scout flashed forward and followed up with two Twin Fangs to secure Jiao Shen's head!"

"Sheng Qiang Ge's teleport finally landed! He slapped Sword Maiden's ultimate onto Scout! Flash AAQ instantly broke through three weaknesses! Sheng Qiang Ge! Such a cool combo!"

"Marquis also flashed and kept dealing damage!"

"But the damage was still a bit short!"

"Scout's positioning was also superb, using Bo Bi's body to block and escape upward!"

"Sheng Qiang Ge went around Bo Bi's Laurent Heart‑stab, using it as an output skill to make up the damage!"

Scout failed to dodge the skill, leaving him with just a sliver of health but he's still alive! Cleanse instantly removes the slow, he runs straight forward!

Bo Bi swung the big hammer!

The instant Sheng Qiang Ge's second Q landed, he was blown away and couldn't deal any damage!

The Marquis couldn't catch up either!

Scout! Just a sliver of health left, and he actually survived!!

Can VG still chase?!

No point chasing, can't catch up, the end result is a trade! But the Marquis's Ryze got first blood, so VG comes out slightly ahead.

My goodness, both sides played this to the extreme, it's insane!

Fans from both sides at the venue were shouting wildly.

In terms of the atmosphere at the venue, LPL indeed falls short of Europe, but if we compare whose screams are louder, this side completely blows them away—over a thousand people actually created an earth-shaking uproar!

He caught his breath twice, then went on:

Indeed, everyone, human or ghost, is putting on a show, but Jiao Shen and Scout are practically gods! Both of their plays are incredibly cool!

Hmm, but someone is going to get scolded.